‘Life is over’: A newspaper’s death near Turkey quake epicentre

Suat Yenipınar holds up the last edition of his newspaper, published on the Friday before the earthquakes, in Pazarcık, Turkey, on February 16, 2023 [Patrick Keddie/Al Jazeera]

Pazarcık, Turkey — Suat Yenipınar was in his fifth-floor apartment with his grandson, when last week’s earthquake woke him up.

“When the earthquake happened I grabbed him and tried to flee the building, but we hit the walls and fell over, so I just covered him with my body to protect him if the building collapsed,” the 60-year-old local journalist recalled. ” After the quake was over, we got out straight away – pieces were falling off the building.”